Runtime assertion checking is useful for debugging programs and specifications. Existing tools check invariants as well as method preand postconditions, but mostly ignore assignabl...
The reactivity of Networked Automation Systems (NAS) has direct influence on safety and quality aspects. It can be determined by a response time analysis, which itself can be calc...
—Multiway Decision Graphs (MDGs) subsume Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs) and extend them by a first-order formulae suitable for model checking of data path circuits. In this pap...
—Contexts, the pieces of information that capture the characteristics of computing environments, are often inconsistent in the dynamic and uncertain pervasive computing environme...
Today’s mainstream object-oriented compilers and tools do not support declaring and statically checking simple pre- and postconditions on methods and invariants on object represe...